Advice Thread OOC Future Tech Only

[Thrashia]

Thanks,

I assume the same would be true for all tactical systems, shields ect?

That is correct. If you create your own ships, then in your mind's eye you've already envisioned them in full battle going at it. SO, you should be able to gauge how successfully or not-so-successfully your ships are able to fend off enemy attacks. It helps if you have a hard point of reference.

[SGA-Atlantis]

If you're going to pattern your nation after Stargate Atlantis, by all means use Atlantis as your base of operations; but please for the love of Pete, leave Commander Sheppard out of the picture.

Dang you MC, I know it too well. But Sheppard's in the picture and maybe I'll get the pleasure of killing him off. Hell, now I've the pleasure of killing all the main characters off.

[Morningstar Coalition]

If you're going to pattern your nation after Stargate Atlantis, by all means use Atlantis as your base of operations; but please for the love of Pete, leave Commander Sheppard out of the picture.

Dang you MC, I know it too well. But Sheppard's in the picture and maybe I'll get the pleasure of killing him off. Hell, now I've the pleasure of killing all the main characters off.

Yes, I thought of you when I wrote that. Don't get me wrong pal, the technical aspects of your writing are solid and polished. You certainly know the SGA canon quite well, so I cannot really fault you for that. The only thing I would honestly, genuinely suggest is coming up with bran new history for those characters, instead of continually drawing solely from the show's history.

Send them on totally new missions, encounter totally new civilizations, and end up with their own histories and character changes.

Or, you could aways engineer some cataclysmic event that kills off the major cast of characters, allowing a brand new Atlantis team to take the stage.

[Drakcon]

Another very important aspect of successfully breaking into FT is the fact that the core group of veterans and non-scrub players have good Out Of Character (OOC) relations with one another, or at least sit down and try to mesh out problems with any RP that might be going on. FT is built on a much better form of Bromanship, don't be an idiot and don't be a jerk, and typically you'll find yourself accepted by the core group.

Okay so where to I find these "core group of veterans and non-scrub players" that you mention?

I really want to get into FT but I want to get in with a group of good players.

[Solar Communes]

Ж - If you see this symbol in someone's signature or a mention of the Extra-Solar Union of Systems(AKA: ESUS), you've found them.

[Drakcon]

That's kinda helpful... but I really don't get how the ESUS works

[Kreanoltha]

I'm trying to get a few problems with my RP nation hammered out. Right now the biggest problem I have is the territory I claim. I used to have a large amount in the Milky Way, but I recently took it down to a half an arm. Specifically the one my nation originated in: the Crux half of the Scutum-Crux arm. Here's the territory I control ATM:

the Crux half(that's the outer half) of the Scutum-Crux arm of the Milky Way galaxy, the Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, and most of the Andromeda galaxy.

I'm also working out how to do a good RP of most of the population that used to be in the Milky Way moving to the Triangulum Galaxy, which I'm going to rename the Nova Vita Galaxy. I was just wondering if that's way too big, or if that would be acceptable. Keep in mind that I am after an intergalactic empire here.

[Solar Communes]

That's kinda helpful... but I really don't get how the ESUS works

It was one of the oldest FT alliances in NS AFAIK, and works as a mutual defense pact, and as a quite demanding regarding OOC writing skills alliance of FT NSes. It's not really "ideological". However it has been somewhat inactive as of late even if some members are still actively RPing.

New members may apply through its offsite forums at http://www.esusalliance.co.uk/forums/viewforum.php?f=1

The application involves writing three stories with decent quality according to the themes suggested.

I won't lie though, it has been quite inactive lately and you may need to be patient about someone addressing your application.

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[Techno-Kat]

That's kinda helpful... but I really don't get how the ESUS works

It was one of the oldest FT alliances in NS AFAIK, and works as a mutual defense pact, and as a quite demanding regarding OOC writing skills alliance of FT NSes. It's not really "ideological". However it has been somewhat inactive as of late even if some members are still actively RPing.

New members may apply through its offsite forums at http://www.esusalliance.co.uk/forums/viewforum.php?f=1

The application involves writing three stories with decent quality according to the themes suggested.

I won't lie though, it has been quite inactive lately and you may need to be patient about someone addressing your application.

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*Remembers that he still has to finish his own ESUS application*

I only have one story done.

How long has it been? Since April?

[Otagia]

I'm trying to get a few problems with my RP nation hammered out. Right now the biggest problem I have is the territory I claim. I used to have a large amount in the Milky Way, but I recently took it down to a half an arm. Specifically the one my nation originated in: the Crux half of the Scutum-Crux arm. Here's the territory I control ATM:

the Crux half(that's the outer half) of the Scutum-Crux arm of the Milky Way galaxy, the Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, and most of the Andromeda galaxy.

I'm also working out how to do a good RP of most of the population that used to be in the Milky Way moving to the Triangulum Galaxy, which I'm going to rename the Nova Vita Galaxy. I was just wondering if that's way too big, or if that would be acceptable. Keep in mind that I am after an intergalactic empire here.

Yeah, the metric fuckton of people inhabiting Crux and Andromeda will probably take issue with that...

[Epsilon Theta]

I'm trying to get a few problems with my RP nation hammered out. Right now the biggest problem I have is the territory I claim. I used to have a large amount in the Milky Way, but I recently took it down to a half an arm. Specifically the one my nation originated in: the Crux half of the Scutum-Crux arm. Here's the territory I control ATM:

I'm also working out how to do a good RP of most of the population that used to be in the Milky Way moving to the Triangulum Galaxy, which I'm going to rename the Nova Vita Galaxy. I was just wondering if that's way too big, or if that would be acceptable. Keep in mind that I am after an intergalactic empire here.

Yeah, the metric fuckton of people inhabiting Crux and Andromeda will probably take issue with that...

I have to agree, if you want to take a large chunk of galaxy, make sure its one no-one has ever heard of, so obviously most *real* galaxy's are out.

[Kreanoltha]

So then... the Triangulum Galaxy doesn't have anyone in it? I guess I could make a fake galaxy with in two or three million lightyears of it.

[Epsilon Theta]

That seems perfectly acceptable: space is very big, and it's unreasonable for anyone to claim to have explored all of it.

[Otagia]

So then... the Triangulum Galaxy doesn't have anyone in it? I guess I could make a fake galaxy with in two or three million lightyears of it.

Nope, most of Triangulum is claimed as well. IIRC, Allanea or Balrogga owns a lot of it.

[Wrohsgaard]

If I were to create a FT nation, where would I store my tech? In a factbook? Or the Wiki?

[Kreanoltha]

So then... the Triangulum Galaxy doesn't have anyone in it? I guess I could make a fake galaxy with in two or three million lightyears of it.

Nope, most of Triangulum is claimed as well. IIRC, Allanea or Balrogga owns a lot of it.

Damn. I missed most of the good stuff. Could I just do some handwave magic and have a pair of spiral galaxies appear in the local cluster near the Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy(which I hope no one has any claims to)?

[Otagia]

Nope, most of Triangulum is claimed as well. IIRC, Allanea or Balrogga owns a lot of it.

Damn. I missed most of the good stuff. Could I just do some handwave magic and have a pair of spiral galaxies appear in the local cluster near the Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy(which I hope no one has any claims to)?

I think the Kanuckistani home cluster is over that way. But yeah, pretty much everywhere real is already heavily inhabited.

[Kreanoltha]

Damn. I missed most of the good stuff. Could I just do some handwave magic and have a pair of spiral galaxies appear in the local cluster near the Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy(which I hope no one has any claims to)?

I think the Kanuckistani home cluster is over that way. But yeah, pretty much everywhere real is already heavily inhabited.

Well then, I guess I'm in for a total migration. Good think the RP I'm in has me moving already. I can say it's for RP reasons. Are there some names for galaxies that are already taken, (other than the real ones)?

[Balrogga]

If you make it up and place it *points in random direction* over there then that would be fine. You could even say it was behind one of the real ones meaning the Andromeda galaxy was between ours and yours so it was blocked from line of sight (ignoring the possibility of the gravitational lens effect of course). Use your imagination but keep consistent. It is the consistency that counts.

[Kreanoltha]

If you make it up and place it *points in random direction* over there then that would be fine. You could even say it was behind one of the real ones meaning the Andromeda galaxy was between ours and yours so it was blocked from line of sight (ignoring the possibility of the gravitational lens effect of course). Use your imagination but keep consistent. It is the consistency that counts.

Thanks Bal.

[The Void Moon]

I've literally just created this nation; can somebody point me in the direction of a good FT region?

[Jenrak]

I've literally just created this nation; can somebody point me in the direction of a good FT region?

The Milky Way Galaxy is a good start.

[Thrashia]

I've literally just created this nation; can somebody point me in the direction of a good FT region?

The Milky Way Galaxy is a good start.

And, just so you are aware, the whole Region thing on the main nation page, as in the region your nation resides in, has no bearing on your RP-location.

[Dead Snow]

The Milky Way Galaxy is a good start.

And, just so you are aware, the whole Region thing on the main nation page, as in the region your nation resides in, has no bearing on your RP-location.

Essentially nothing on your nation page has any bearing on any ft rps....

[Unified Human Colonies]

Is there anywhere with an overview of the history of NS FT? Just to get some backstories on the Alliences and major players?